Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)

Subject: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: masato sakurai
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 12:47 PM

Cathy Lynn Preston's Concordance to the Child Ballads has been renewed, which now uses the PDF format in addition to the Postscript format. This is much more user-friendly.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 01:15 PM

Yes, it certainly is an improvement. There was something odd about the coding of some of the postscript files which made it impossible to convert them to pdf via Distiller, at any rate, so I'd given up on it.

Thanks for the info; now I can finally use the thing!

Subject: RE: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 01:47 PM

Please, some help for the computer-ignorant. In the PDF selection, the Formatted text pdf comes up, but the original text pdf shows only Black sheets (both IE and Netscape). What is needed?

Subject: RE: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 05:52 PM

hmmm...Q...it seemed to work for me ok. I was usuing the Mozilla browser at the time, but Netscape is the same basic system...try it again?

Subject: RE: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 07:35 PM

Odd one! I get the messge "Could not find color space named 'Cs6! Usually such messages can be ignored because they refer to some introductory figure or art work. I get the same problem with Internet Explorer.
This is followed by "...file contains information not understood by the viewer. Suppress further errors?" This often happens when the language is difficult. Usually I just say no and go right ahead, without problems. The Acrobat reader just shows black pages. The formatted text, as I said, is fine.
Any suggestions?

Subject: RE: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 07:49 PM

that is beyond me!...never saw any thing like it. I am in Opera browser right now...will try again.

Subject: RE: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 08:00 PM

hmmm..Opera wanted to download the whole thing before it showed me anything, so I went to Netscape 4.79 and it very politely loaded one page at a time! showed me page one...then loaded page two....and when I asked, it went to the last page...then to page 170 when I changed the # (all this was online...NOT after downloading all 2.7 million bytes)

it all showed up just fine...perhaps your copy of Acrobat has a problem?
Wish I could offer more help, but it just works here...

Subject: RE: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 24 Nov 02 - 08:18 PM

Thanks, Bill. I have a technician in the neighborhood. I will add this to the little list of questions I have for him.
I didn't add this to my note on the "Common Errors" site, but I will enjoy going through it! Thanks for posting it.

Subject: RE: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Apr 19 - 05:20 PM

Apparently, this site has been removed from the university Website (although quite recently, so maybe it will come back). I found it at archive.org.

Subject: RE: Child Ballad Concordance (PDF format)
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Apr 19 - 06:50 PM

I had forgotten about this... but it sure downloaded faster than in 2002!